Scottish Executive

Agriculture

Irene McGugan (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to support soft fruit breeding programmes following its commitment in A Forward Strategy for Scottish Agriculture .

Ross Finnie: The Scottish Executive continues to fund a number of research projects into soft fruit, much of this directly underpinning raspberry and blackcurrant breeding. Funding in the current financial year amounts to over £935,000. In addition, since the end of EU funding of the special scheme for raspberries intended for processing, the Scottish Executive has been engaged in discussions with stakeholders within the industry on the prospects for a replacement raspberry breeding programme.

Agriculture

Irene McGugan (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how it will encourage multiple retailers and others in the private sector to invest in new varieties of soft fruits.

Ross Finnie: This is ultimately a matter for the multiple retailers and others in the private sector. The Scottish Executive’s role is to facilitate discussions amongst industry stakeholders. A representative member of the multiple retailers, along with other stakeholders, was asked to comment on the DTZ Pieda report into the future of raspberry breeding in Scotland published early in 2001. Their view was that investment in new varieties was not a matter for them. The Scottish Executive is continuing discussions with other stakeholders within the industry.

Arts

Michael Russell (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Federation of Scottish Theatre and others about additional funding for theatre in Scotland and when it will announce its conclusions about such funding.

Dr Elaine Murray: The Executive has taken opinion from the sector in its consideration of the Scottish Arts Council's submission on funding for Scottish theatre. That consideration is proceeding and we hope to make a statement soon.

Arts

Michael Russell (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-18835 by Allan Wilson on 11 November 2001, what progress it has made regarding the establishment of a National Theatre for Scotland.

Michael Russell (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to announce the outcome of discussions on funding theatre in Scotland, including the discussions with the Scottish Arts Council which were reported to the Parliament by the then Deputy Minister for Sport and Culture in the debate on the National Cultural Strategy on 25 October 2001.

Dr Elaine Murray: The Scottish Arts Council's submission on Scottish theatre seeks significant additional funding. It also raises a number of detailed issues relating to the theatre sector which we are examining with care. That consideration is proceeding and we hope to make a statement soon.

Asylum Seekers

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19685 by Jackie Baillie on 19 November 2001, what proportion of asylum seekers in Scotland are currently attending further education courses.

Ms Wendy Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally.

Autism

Mr Lloyd Quinan (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what representations are being made to the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education to ensure that clinical psychologists are adequately trained in autistic spectrum disorders.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education commissions training to meet the professional accreditation requirements for chartered clinical psychologists. Formal teaching for and clinical experience of psychology services for children, young people and their families is a core component of all clinical psychology training. Within that element of training, autistic spectrum disorders are a core topic.

Autism

Mr Lloyd Quinan (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Chief Scientist Office has been approached to fund research into links between autism and dementia in the last three years.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Chief Scientist Office has received no approaches to fund research into links between autism and dementia in the last three years but would be pleased to consider funding research proposals into this matter which would be subject to the usual peer group and committee review.

Autism

Mr Lloyd Quinan (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Chief Scientist Office has been approached regarding the funding of research into autism and Asperger’s Syndrome in people aged 40 and over.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Chief Scientist Office has received no approaches to fund research into autism and Asperger’s Syndrome in people aged 40 and over, but would be pleased to consider funding research proposals into this matter which would be subject to the usual peer group and committee review.

Autism

Mr Lloyd Quinan (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) psychiatrists and (b) psychologists classify autism and Asperger’s Syndrome as their main speciality, broken down by health board area.

Malcolm Chisholm: While a number of psychiatrists specialise in the treatment of specific conditions, they will treat patients with a wide range of psychiatric needs. Information is not collected on those who deal only with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, as staff data is classified by main specialty only and does not identify sub-categories of specialty or special interest.

  The numbers of clinical psychologist who would classify these conditions as their main specialty are small and the data is not collected centrally.

  However, many more will indicate autistic spectrum disorders among their interests. This reflects the fact that children with autistic spectrum disorders do not enter the service through one service point, nor spend their lives in one service context. They will have a variety of needs over their developmental years, which will bring them into contact with different sections of the services for children, young people and their families.

Cancer

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive who the members of the West of Scotland Regional Cancer Advisory Group are and how many of them are employed by the Beatson Oncology Centre.

Malcolm Chisholm: The West of Scotland Regional Cancer Advisory Group is chaired by Mr Tom Divers, Chief Executive NHS Greater Glasgow. The Regional Lead Clinician is Dr Harry Burns, Director of Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow.

  There are more than 60 members drawn from across NHS Argyll and Clyde, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Greater Glasgow, NHS Lanarkshire, Managed Clinical Network leads, the voluntary sector, patient representation and representatives of regional services such as breast screening and cancer surveillance.

  There are three members from the Beatson Oncology Centre,

  Dr N Reed, Clinical Director

  Professor J Cassidy, Academic Oncology

  Ms C Hutchison, Consultant Nurse Oncologist

  Full details of the membership of the North, South East and West of Scotland RCAGs will be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.

  Guidance on the role, structure and function of Regional Cancer Advisory Groups is set out in NHS HDL (2001) 71 issued on 13 September 2001. This is available online at www.show.scot.nhs.uk.

Cancer

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive which cancer specialities are not being provided due to the current vacancies at the Beatson Oncology Centre.

Malcolm Chisholm: Specialist services for all cancers continue to be provided by the Beatson Oncology Centre.

Cancer

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how the number of linear accelerators allocated to the Beatson Oncology Centre has been calculated and what scope there is for increasing their number.

Malcolm Chisholm: Information about the background to planning cancer services was outlined in the answer given to question S1W-19750.

  The linear accelerator (and related radiotherapy equipment) modernisation programme has been, and continues to be, developed by the Scottish Executive Health Department in consultation with Cancer Centre Directors and relevant staff drawn from across Scotland.

  Three new linear accelerators are installed at the Gartnavel Hospital site, giving a total of eight now available. Two further (additional) linear accelerators are to be purchased and installed there during 2002.

  Beyond that, the plans for further replacement and additional radiotherapy equipment will continue to be brought forward via the modernisation programme and within the context of the business planning process for the development of Phase 2 of the new West of Scotland Regional Cancer Centre at Gartnavel.

Cancer

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19747 by Susan Deacon on 21 November 2001, what financial resources (a) have been made available to the cancer centres in (i) Aberdeen, (ii) Dundee, (iii) Edinburgh, (iv) Glasgow and (v) Inverness in each of the last five years and (b) will be made available to those centres in each of the next five years.

Malcolm Chisholm: The information requested is not held centrally. NHS trust chief executives at the acute hospital trusts which host Scotland’s cancer centres will be able to provide information locally – Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust, Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust, Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust, North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust and Highland Acute Trust. Contact details are available online at: www.show.scot.nhs.uk.

Cancer

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19478 by Susan Deacon on 21 November 2001, what plans there are to increase the number of linear accelerators per million of population at the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow.

Malcolm Chisholm: During 2002-03, two additional linear accelerators will be purchased and installed at the Beatson Oncology Centre, funded by the Scottish Executive’s radiotherapy equipment modernisation programme. This will bring the total number of linear accelerators to 10, which is 3.9 per million population.

Cancer

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what the occurrence of cancer as a percentage of the population was in each cancer centre area in each of the last five years.

Malcolm Chisholm: The following table shows, by NHS board areas for the years 1994-98, the number of patients diagnosed with cancer and percentage of the population served by Scotland’s five cancer centres. However, it should be noted that oncology services are provided through regional managed clinical networks which transcend NHS board boundaries.

  


Cancer centre area 
  

Period of diagnosis 
  

Number of cases 
  

Percentage of population 
  



Aberdeen
(Grampian,
Orkney and
Shetland)


1994
1995
1996
1997
1998 
  

2,607 
  

0.45 
  



2,678 
  

0.47 
  



2,579 
  

0.45 
  



2,594 
  

0.45 
  



2,668 
  

0.47 
  



Dundee
(Tayside) 
  

1994
1995
1996
1997
1998 
  

2,028 
  

0.51 
  



2,125 
  

0.54 
  



2,231 
  

0.57 
  



2,100 
  

0.54 
  



2,140 
  

0.55 
  



Edinburgh
(Lothian, Fife, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway) 
  

1994
1995
1996
1997
1998 
  

6,906 
  

0.51 
  



6,990 
  

0.51 
  



7,461 
  

0.54 
  



7,037 
  

0.51 
  



6,632 
  

0.48 
  



Glasgow
(Argyll & Clyde, Ayrshire & Arran, Forth Valley, 
  Glasgow and Lanarkshire) 
  

1994
1995
1996
1997
1998 
  

12,637 
  

0.49 
  



12,522 
  

0.49 
  



13,411 
  

0.53 
  



12,983
12,550 
  

0.51
0.49 
  











Inverness
(Highland, Orkney and Shetland) 
  

1994
1995
1996
1997
1998 
  

1,189 
  

0.50 
  



1,141 
  

0.48 
  



1,192 
  

0.50 
  



1,312 
  

0.55 
  



1,422 
  

0.60 
  



  Notes:

  1. 1998 is the most recent year for which complete cancer registration information is available.

  2. There are likely to be cross-boundary flows (for example of Dumfries & Galloway patients seen in Glasgow; Fife residents seen in Dundee) which have not been accounted for in these calculations.

Cancer

Dorothy-Grace Elder (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive why 30 women in Glasgow who have recently been tested positive for HER2 and have secondary breast cancer are not receiving the drug Herceptin.

Malcolm Chisholm: Guidance from the National Institute of Clinical Excellence on the use of Trastuzamab (Herceptin) is awaited.

  Clinicians are responsible for making appropriate decisions on treatment in individual cases, in consultation with their patient.

Cancer

Dorothy-Grace Elder (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the use of Herceptin in HER2 patients in Scotland, given that Scotland has a higher percentage of such patients being treated privately than in England and Wales.

Malcolm Chisholm: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-21518 on 21 January 2002.

Common Good Funds

Alex Johnstone (North-East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20470 by Peter Peacock on 11 December 2001, whether it has any plans to review current legislation in order to make it compulsory for local authorities to consult with community councils over the allocation of Common Good Funds.

Peter Peacock: There are no plans to review current legislation in order to make it compulsory for local authorities to consult with community councils over the allocation of Common Good Funds.

Deaf and Deafblind People

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive why the Scottish Council on Deafness’s Mental Health and Deaf People Task Group’s application for funding from the Chief Scientist Office in 2001 was turned down.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Council on Deafness' application for funding from the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) was turned down on 1 November 2001 because it lay outside the remit of CSO’s research grant scheme which requires that the principal research grant holder must be a permanent salaried member of staff in a Scottish Institution and the administrating body must be based in Scotland. Additionally, the proposal was considered to be more in the area of a needs assessment and audit, rather than a research proposal designed to provide new knowledge and findings which are able to be generalised.

  Further information on CSO grant conditions is available on the CSO website at www.show.scot.nhs.uk/cso.

Deaf and Deafblind People

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what specialist units, professionals and additional resources are available in each health board area for deaf and deafblind people diagnosed with a mental illness.

Malcolm Chisholm: NHS boards and local authorities will decide what resources to allocate to any specialist provision for this care group reflecting the needs of their area. On an individual level, assessments should always take account of the whole person with care responses wherever possible matching all needs. The particular needs of those with sensory difficulties underline the importance of the individual aspect to care design and the key supportive role for advocates, carers and family.

Dentists

Richard Lochhead (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultants there are in (a) restorative dentistry, (b) oral and maxillofacial surgery and (c) orthodontics in each health board area in the current financial year, and were in each of the last three years, expressed in (i) numerical terms and (ii) as a ratio of consultants to head of population in the health board area.

Malcolm Chisholm: Provisional Information on staff numbers at 30 September 2001 is not yet available. The information requested for the years 1998 to 2000, apart from maxillofacial surgeons who are not separately identified, is shown in Tables 1 and 2. Maxillofacial surgeons will be identified separately in data collected from September 2001 onwards. The tables should be read in conjunction with the following notes.

  Consultants in these dental specialties can and do offer services to patients from health board areas other than the one at which they are based. It should therefore be noted that the ratio of consultants to head of population does not necessarily reflect the level of consultant service available in any area. Treatments provided by consultants in a particular board may be provided by other grades of staff in other boards, which further distorts comparisons between boards based on these statistics.

  Table 1 – Consultants in Selected Dental Specialties by Health Board

  Headcount at 30 September

  





1998 
  

1999 
  

2000 
  






Restorative Dentistry 
  

Oral Surgery 
  

Orthodontics 
  

Restorative Dentistry 
  

Oral Surgery 
  

Orthodontics 
  

Restorative Dentistry 
  

Oral Surgery 
  

Orthodontics 
  



Scotland


 21


 25


24


22


 27


27


21


25


26




Argyll & Clyde 
  

- 
  

- 
  

 2 
  

- 
  

- 
  

 2 
  

- 
  

- 
  

 2 
  



Ayrshire & Arran 
  

- 
  

 2 
  

 2 
  

- 
  

 2 
  

 2 
  

- 
  

 2 
  

 2 
  



Borders 
  

- 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

- 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

- 
  

- 
  

 1 
  



Dumfries & Galloway 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

 1 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

 1 
  

- 
  

- 
  

 1 
  



Fife 
  

- 
  

 2 
  

 1 
  

- 
  

 2 
  

 1 
  

- 
  

 2 
  

 1 
  



Forth Valley 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

 2 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

3 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

 3 
  



Grampian 
  

 1 
  

 2 
  

 1 
  

 1 
  

 2 
  

 1 
  

 1 
  

 2 
  

 1 
  



Greater Glasgow 
  

12 
  

 8 
  

4 
  

13 
  

 9 
  

6 
  

11 
  

7 
  

5 
  



Highland 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

 2 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

 2 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

 2 
  



Lanarkshire 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

3 
  

- 
  

 1 
  

 3 
  

- 
  

2 
  

 3 
  



Lothian 
  

 2 
  

 3 
  

 2 
  

3 
  

 4 
  

 2 
  

4 
  

 4 
  

 2 
  



Orkney 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Shetland 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Tayside 
  

6 
  

 4 
  

3 
  

5 
  

 4 
  

 3 
  

 5 
  

 4 
  

 3 
  



Western Isles 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  



  Table 2 – Consultants in Selected Dental Specialties

  Headcount per 1 000 000 population by Health Board

  





1998 
  

1999 
  

2000 
  






Restorative Dentistry 
  

Oral Surgery 
  

Orthodontics 
  

Restorative Dentistry 
  

Oral Surgery 
  

Orthodontics 
  

Restorative Dentistry 
  

Oral Surgery 
  

Orthodontics 
  



Scotland


4


5


5


4


5


5


4


5


5




Argyll & Clyde 
  

- 
  

- 
  

5 
  

- 
  

- 
  

5 
  

- 
  

- 
  

5 
  



Ayrshire & Arran 
  

- 
  

5 
  

5 
  

- 
  

5 
  

5 
  

- 
  

5 
  

5 
  



Borders 
  

- 
  

- 
  

9 
  

- 
  

- 
  

9 
  

- 
  

- 
  

9 
  



Dumfries & Galloway 
  

- 
  

7 
  

7 
  

- 
  

7 
  

7 
  

- 
  

- 
  

7 
  



Fife 
  

- 
  

6 
  

3 
  

- 
  

6 
  

3 
  

- 
  

6 
  

3 
  



Forth Valley 
  

- 
  

4 
  

7 
  

- 
  

4 
  

11 
  

- 
  

4 
  

11 
  



Grampian 
  

2 
  

4 
  

2 
  

2 
  

4 
  

2 
  

2 
  

4 
  

2 
  



Greater Glasgow 
  

13 
  

9 
  

4 
  

14 
  

10 
  

7 
  

12 
  

8 
  

6 
  



Highland 
  

- 
  

5 
  

10 
  

- 
  

5 
  

10 
  

- 
  

5 
  

10 
  



Lanarkshire 
  

- 
  

2 
  

5 
  

- 
  

2 
  

5 
  

- 
  

4 
  

5 
  



Lothian 
  

3 
  

4 
  

3 
  

4 
  

5 
  

3 
  

5 
  

5 
  

3 
  



Orkney 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Shetland 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Tayside 
  

15 
  

10 
  

8 
  

13 
  

10 
  

8 
  

13 
  

10 
  

8 
  



Western Isles 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  



  Note for Tables 1 and 2:

  Data for 30 September 2000 are provisional.

  Figures include honorary appointments.

  Rates per head of population are based on population estimates as at mid-June.

  Consultants in these specialties can and do offer services to patients in health board areas other than that in which they are based.

  Maxillofacial surgery is not separately classified in central data up to 2000. These surgeons will be classified either as oral surgeons or plastic surgeons.

Enterprise

Fiona Hyslop (Lothians) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-18938 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 26 October 2001, how much of the £10 million allocated has been spent by the Motorola Task Force.

Ms Wendy Alexander: Expenditure reports from Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh & Lothian for the period 1 April 2001 – 17 December 2001 show total costs to date of £3.0 million. Total spending in respect of the work of the Motorola Taskforce on the Action Plan is anticipated to rise to £4.1 million

  In my statement to Parliament on Thursday 20 December 2001 following announcement of the NEC redundancies, I announced that the Executive will provide £6 million to the West Lothian Strategic Action Plan for economic development in the area.

Environment

Brian Adam (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20906 by Ross Finnie on 3 January 2002, when it expects the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment to report and when the report will be published.

Ross Finnie: The Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment will consider this matter at their next meeting, to be held on 24 January. Any advice that the committee offers to the Scottish Executive will be made public.

Environment

Brian Adam (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20906 by Ross Finnie on 3 January 2002, whether it will stop current and future field scale trials until it has received the report from the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment.

Ross Finnie: The Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) will consider the research concerning the presence of transgenic DNA in native maize in Mexico at their meeting on 24   January 2002.

  The potential for cross-pollination is taken into account by ACRE before consent is granted for any GM crop to be grown in the UK. If ACRE consider that the possibility of cross-pollination between GM and native maize varieties in Mexico supersedes their existing advice in relation to the GM oilseed rape being grown in Scotland, we would expect to be advised by ACRE on the implications for the farm scale evaluations.

Environment

Brian Adam (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20906 by Ross Finnie on 3 January 2002, whether the priority it places on the protection of human health and the environment is greater than that accorded to the completion of the GM trials and whether this is consistent with precautionary principles.

Ross Finnie: The Scottish Executive would not hesitate to halt the farm scale evaluation programme if any credible evidence of harm to human health or the environment was to be found.

Forestry

John Farquhar Munro (Ross, Skye and Inverness West) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to review the options for further decentralising administration of forestry policy and management.

Allan Wilson: Following the completion of the first stage of the review of the Forest Enterprise Executive Agency in May 2001, we agreed with Environment and Rural Development Ministers in England and Wales that we intended to review the options for further decentralisation of forestry policy and management. Ministers have collectively decided that the review will start shortly and report next spring. It will consider the current administrative arrangements for delivering sustainable forestry policies in Scotland, England and Wales and the UK’s international forestry commitments, including options for further devolution of these arrangements. The review will be undertaken by officials from the Scottish Executive, Forestry Commission, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the National Assembly for Wales, the Cabinet Office and the Treasury. The Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will also be involved in the review. Views will be sought from interested parties during the course of the review.

Freedom of Information

Andrew Wilson (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-20441 and S1W-20439 by Lewis MacDonald on 11 December 2001 and given that it is "not usual to provide details of discussions between Ministers and third parties", how it decides what information will be disclosed when this circumstance arises.

Mr Jim Wallace: Decisions on whether or not to disclose information, including details of discussions between ministers and third parties, are considered in the context of the Executive’s policy of extending access to official information. This policy is supported by the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information , which provides that information should be released except where disclosure would not be in the public interest, as specified in Part II of the code.

Further Education

David Mundell (South of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what research has been carried out by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council into what examples of information and communications technologies support for learning work best in a further education context as set out in point 11 of its response to the report of the Digital Scotland Task Force , Digital Scotland: The Way Forward.

Ms Wendy Alexander: SFEFC is working to implement this recommendation through a range of initiatives set out in its information and communications technology (ICT) strategy. For example, the council is funding eight strategic projects which are piloting a range of innovative activities relating to the use of ICT in a further education context. The projects were scheduled to conclude in March 2002 but some may now be extended beyond that date, with a focus on dissemination of project outcomes.

  The council has also awarded a contract for ICT advisory services for staff development to the Scottish Further Education Unit and another for content development to Learning and Teaching Scotland. These are both designed to identify and promote good practice in the use of ICT in a further education context.

Further and Higher Education

Andrew Wilson (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance it can provide to students or internal welfare organisations who contact it directly requesting its intervention in concerns, complaints, alleged malpractices or grievances associated with courses or administration at any university or further education college.

Ms Wendy Alexander: All higher education institutions and further education colleges have complaints procedures in place, details of which are available to students and staff. Institutions and colleges are autonomous bodies and ministers have no locus to intervene in such matters.

General Practitioners

Mr Lloyd Quinan (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the current postgraduate education allowance is for general practitioners; whether general practitioners are required to apply for funding or whether the allowance is paid automatically; what the duration of the allowance is, and what other professions are eligible to receive the allowance.

Malcolm Chisholm: Postgraduate Education Allowance (PGEA) is designed to encourage general practitioners (GPs) to keep themselves educationally up to date by attending five days accredited training per year. The allowance is paid on a progressive scale reaching a maximum of £2,735 per annum following five successive years (25 days) of training. To maintain the full allowance the GP has to continue attending at least five training days per year. This method of payment encourages the GP to be involved in continuous postgraduate educational training.

  The current postgraduate education allowance for general medical practitioners (GMPs) is as follows:

  


Level 1 
  

£545 per annum 
  



Level 2 
  

£1,090 per annum 
  



Level 3 
  

£1,635 per annum 
  



Level 4 
  

£2,180 per annum 
  



Full Allowance 
  

£2,735 per annum 
  



  General medical practitioners (GMPs) who qualify for the allowance have to claim for payment each year. The allowance is paid on a yearly basis providing the GMP has attended five days of accredited postgraduate education each year as laid down in the GMP’s Statement of Fees and Allowances (SFA).

  General dental practitioners (GDPs), who satisfy certain conditions, may claim a continuing professional development allowance of up to £1,092 per annum. This amount is subject to abatement, based on the proportion of the GDP’s NHS earnings to total earnings.

General Practitioners

Mr Lloyd Quinan (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what methods it uses to promote the postgraduate education allowance for general practitioners and other professions.

Malcolm Chisholm: This information is not currently available.

Health Technology Board for Scotland

Dorothy-Grace Elder (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is the Health Technology Board for Scotland’s policy to await reports by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on guidance on new drugs for health boards before making its own statements on such guidance and what the reason is for the position on this matter.

Malcolm Chisholm: If a new drug is already on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Technology Appraisal Guidance work programme, the Health Technology Board for Scotland (HTBS) will usually await the publication of the NICE Guidance and then provide an authoritative comment on it. HTBS was asked to establish this process to meet the express needs and expectations of decision-makers and clinicians in Scotland, and to avoid duplication and any potential waste of public resources. A copy of the commenting process is available at: www.htbs.co.uk

  HTBS has now developed strong collaborative links with NICE providing input to all their appraisals and commenting where appropriate on draft documents. HTBS involves Scottish experts in this process so that issues pertinent to Scotland can be raised during the NICE process. This should reduce the need for formal comment.

  The HTBS is also supporting the development of the Scottish Medicines Consortium. The consortium will shortly begin to provide NHS boards and Area Drug and Therapeutics Committees with advice on new drugs at the time of their market launch.

Health Technology Board for Scotland

Dorothy-Grace Elder (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff are employed by the Health Technology Board for Scotland on salaries of (a) under £40,000 and (b) over £40,000 and how many are (i) part-time and (ii) full-time.

Malcolm Chisholm: At 1 January 2002, the Health Technology Board for Scotland employed 13 full-time staff on salaries of under £40,000 and three full-time staff on salaries of over £40,000 (one executive grade, one medical and one scientific). All 16 members of staff are employed on full-time contracts.

Health Technology Board for Scotland

Dorothy-Grace Elder (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive when the Health Technology Board for Scotland will report its accounts for 2000-01.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Health Technology Board for Scotland (HTBS) accounts for 2000-01 were published in the board's Annual Report, which is available from the HTBS website (www.htbs.co.uk).

Health and Safety

Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12969 by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 March 2001, what progress has been made with the Health & Safety Executive update on guidelines on the operation of sun tanning parlours.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Health and Safety Executive confirm that the guidance has been reviewed. No substantive changes were required or proposed.

Health and Safety

Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration has it given to the introduction of legislation requiring sun tanning parlours to be licensed.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Executive has no plans to introduce legislation requiring sun tanning parlours to be licensed. Sun tanning parlours are subject to the requirements of health and safety regulations that place obligations on employers to protect the health of their employees and members of the public who might be affected by their work (in this case, customers). The National Radiological Protection Board also proposes to develop guidance on limitations of exposure to ultraviolet radiation.

Health and Safety

Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration is being given to the licensing of sun tanning parlours in the review of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982.

Malcolm Chisholm: There are no plans to introduce such a licensing regime.

Individual Learning Accounts

Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1F-1501 by Mr Jack McConnell on 20 December 2001, what the names are of the learning providers who will be paid before the end of this month.

Ms Wendy Alexander: The names of the learning providers are as follows (in alphabetical order):

  


2020 Training 
  



A D Services (Scotland) Ltd 
  



ABC Training Ltd 
  



Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce 
  



Aberdeenshire Training Group 
  



Aberfeldy Learning Centre 
  



Abertay Training Ltd 
  



Aesthetique Beauty Training Centre 
  



Age Concern Training 
  



Alex McAra HGV Training 
  



Alford IT Centre (Aberdeenshire Council) 
  



Alliance Francaise de Glasgow 
  



AMPC PC Training 
  



AMT International 
  



Ancrum Centre 
  



Angus Association of Voluntary Organisations 
  



Animal Care College 
  



Argyll College 
  



Arrowpoint Training 
  



Asset-IT 
  



Ayr Driver Training 
  



Ayrshire Management 
  



BASP (British Association of Ski Patrollers) 
  



BBKS & Co 
  



BCTC (Borders Counselling & Training Consortium) 
  



Bell Innovations Ltd 
  



Blairgowrie Learning Centre 
  



Bon-Accord Training Services 
  



BPP Glasgow 
  



BPP Hyperion Training 
  



Bracken Training 
  



British Red Cross 
  



BS Secretarial & Computer Training Centre 
  



Business Works 
  



C I A Training Ltd 
  



Cab Atlas Taxi Driver Training 
  



Cabin Crew Careers 
  



Cable Telecommunications 
  



Cannington College 
  



Carlton Professional Development Ltd 
  



Castle Computer Services 
  



Catersafe Food Hygiene Consultants 
  



CBT Ltd 
  



Central Training Services Ltd 
  



Centre for Professional Legal Studies 
  



Centro Espanol Lorca Limited 
  



Chaos Computer Training 
  



Charlie Lauder HGV Driver Training 
  



City of Edinburgh Council Community Education 
  



Clackmannan College 
  



Claire Tomlins - Harmony Kinesiology College 
  



Cloud 9 Therapies 
  



Clyde Counselling and Lifelong Learning Agency 
  



Cog Training 
  



College of Holistic Medicine 
  



College of Natural Nutrition (Scotland) Ltd 
  



Comp U Tech (Kent) 
  



Computacademy.Com 
  



Comrie Learning Centre 
  



Coralshore Ltd 
  



Creative Nail Academy 
  



Dangerous Goods Management (DGM) 
  



David McNamee (Safelift Training) 
  



Deaf Connections 
  



Destiny College 
  



DGM Training 
  



Down Fork Lift Training 
  



Drumbeat Speyside Ltd 
  



Dumfries & Galloway Council Adult Education Services 
  



Dunfermline Centre (Fife Council Community Services) 
  



Dunfermline LGV & PC Training 
  



Dunragit Grooming 
  



East Dunbartonshire Enterprise Trust 
  



EC-PC 
  



Edinburgh Language Centre 
  



Edinburgh School of Aromatherapy 
  



Edinburgh University 
  



Edutrain International Limited 
  



Electra Technologies 
  



Eurolink Connections 
  



Evolve International Safety Training 
  



Eyemouth Lift Truck Training Centre 
  



First Aid Training Services 
  



Flying Dog Productions Ltd 
  



Foremost IT 
  



French Institute of Scotland 
  



Friendberry Ltd 
  



Glasgow College of Food Technology 
  



Global English 
  



Goethe-Institute 
  



GOSTA Training Ltd 
  



Govan Initiative Ltd 
  



GTG Training – Bishopbridges 
  



GTG Training – Glasgow 
  



Hairnet UK Ltd 
  



Heriott-Watt University 
  



Hexagon Computer Services 
  



HFI Training Ltd 
  



Holistic Healers Association 
  



Holistic Training Ltd 
  



Home Fellowship Wales 
  



Hospitality Training 
  



Hotscot 
  



I M T I Forklift Training 
  



I.G.A. (Graphology) Ltd 
  



Ideal Schools 
  



In Touch Training 
  



Insight Training 
  



Instep Initiatives Limited 
  



Institute of Counselling 
  



Institute of Videography Ltd 
  



Intensive TEFL Courses 
  



Interalia 
  



International College 
  



Intesol 
  



Inverness College 
  



Inversnaid Photography Centre 
  



IT Works (Alba) Ltd 
  



IT-4-Biz.Com 
  



IT4uonline Ltd 
  



ITCA Ltd 
  



Jan Clark 
  



Jennie Austin 
  



Jennifer D. Niven 
  



Jim Paxton Driver Training 
  



Kell Taylor Partners 
  



Ki Therapies 
  



Kinharvie 
  



KLC School Of Design 
  



Kudos Training 
  



LAGTA Group 
  



Lancashire College 
  



Language Link Training 
  



Language Studio 
  



Learning and Teaching Scotland 
  



Learning I.T. 
  



Licence by Post 
  



Life Training Scotland 
  



Linguaphone Institute Ltd 
  



Lochaber Business Development Services 
  



Lochgelly High Community Use (Fife Council Community Services) 
  



London Art College 
  



London School of Journalism 
  



Lorraine Elizabeth Allan 
  



Machars Information Services 
  



Management & Business Development 
  



Mascal Training Direct UK Ltd 
  



Materials Handling Solutions 
  



May-Tag Ltd 
  



Mediacorp Ltd 
  



Menzies Gemmell Associates 
  



Met Tech 
  



Microcom Training 
  



Microteach 
  



Midlothian Council 
  



Mindfields Seminars Ltd 
  



Minerva Training 
  



Moray College 
  



Morrison's Academy 
  



MSA Marketing Services 
  



Nail Systems (Scotland) Ltd 
  



Napier University Ventures Ltd 
  



National Association of Estate Agents 
  



National Extension College 
  



National I.T. Learning Centre Ltd 
  



National Pharmaceutical Association 
  



National Union of Journalists 
  



Nationwide Creative Workshops Ltd 
  



NCTJ Training Ltd 
  



Network Driver Training 
  



New Leaf Education 
  



New Vision Complementary Therapy 
  



NIG Academy of Professional Investigation Ltd 
  



Nightfreight Training Services 
  



North East Services & Training 
  



North Lanarkshire Council Libraries and Information 
  



Northern College of Education 
  



Oatridge Agricultural College 
  



Office Associates Ltd 
  



Ogilvie Institute 
  



Online 2 Learn.Net 
  



Opito Ltd 
  



Oriel Training Services 
  



P A Training 
  



P F E First Aid Training 
  



Pathways Centre Perth College 
  



Patterson Training 
  



PCT Professional Development 
  



Peatling Training & Development Ltd 
  



Perth College, Kinross Learning Centre 
  



Perth College, Pitlochry Learning Centre 
  



Pilates Institute and Michael A King Ltd 
  



Pitman Training Centre 
  



Plaskett Nutritional Medicine College 
  



Powerhouse Fitness Associates Ltd 
  



Premier Training and Development Ltd 
  



Priority First Training 
  



Prospect for Training 
  



Publishing Training Centre 
  



Pyramid Educational Consultants UK Ltd 
  



QTAC @ Fife College 
  



Quality Direct 
  



Randolph School of English 
  



RCN Institute 
  



Recruitment Training (Edinburgh) Ltd 
  



Reid Consultants Ltd 
  



Reiki Training Centre 
  



Renfrewshire Business Training Services Ltd 
  



Rewards (Scotland) 
  



RGIT Montrose Ltd 
  



Rhodec International 
  



Robert Gordon University 
  



RRC Business Training 
  



Rusland College 
  



Sage Software Ltd 
  



Scotnursing 
  



Scotsoft Training Ltd 
  



Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) 
  



Scottish Institute of Human Relations 
  



Scottish Museums Council 
  



Scottish National Watersport Centre Cumbrae Sport Scotland 
  



Scottish School of Professional Massage 
  



Scottish Screen 
  



Shaders 
  



Share 
  



Sibbald Ltd 
  



Smart Computer Scotland Ltd 
  



Smart Learning Solutions 
  



Snowsport Scotland 
  



SOFT (Scottish Oil Firing Training) 
  



Solutions Plus 
  



South Kent College 
  



South Lanarkshire College 
  



Southwest Business Services 
  



St Andrews Ambulance 
  



St Brycedale Training 
  



Stonebridge Associated Colleges 
  



Surfingkids 
  



TAG Training Service 
  



Taxi Academy 
  



Tayside Association 
  



Teaching Driving Ltd 
  



TEFL Training 
  



The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music 
  



The Beauty Academy 
  



The Borders Training 
  



The British Kodaly Academy 
  



The Canadian Institute of English 
  



The Distance Learning Partnership 
  



The Edinburgh Therapy Academy 
  



The Financial Training Company 
  



The Garnethill Centre 
  



The Hamilton Bell School 
  



The Horticultural Correspondence College 
  



The Language Centre 
  



The Lightworkers Foundation 
  



The Mari Group Limited 
  



The Mayo School of Astrology 
  



The Multiple Sclerosis Trust 
  



The School of Natural Health Sciences 
  



The Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre 
  



The Scottish School of Herbal Medicine 
  



The Scottish Society of Iyengar Yoga Teachers 
  



The Scout Association 
  



The Silva Method 
  



The University of Edinburgh 
  



Thinkglobal 
  



TML 
  



Total Media Group 
  



Training Academy Limited 
  



Training Initiatives 
  



Training Services Fife 
  



Training Together 
  



TV UK Limited / Latitude Media Courses 
  



Under The Sun - School of Yoga and Healing Arts 
  



Unisoft IT Ltd 
  



United Beauty Products Ltd 
  



University of Abertay – Dundee 
  



University of Glasgow 
  



University of Strathclyde - English Language Teaching Division 
  



Urban Learning 
  



User Friendly Professional Computers Services 
  



Venturer Training 
  



Visualsoft UK Ltd 
  



Vocational Training (West Lothian) 
  



Warriston Broadcast Training 
  



Web Agency Ltd 
  



Western School of Massage 
  



Whizzkidz 
  



Wholebeing 
  



Wombourne School of Millinery 
  



Writers News Home Study Centre 
  



Zaragon Ltd

Individual Learning Accounts

Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many learning providers that have never been the subject of any validity checks by (a) learndirect scotland and (b) Scottish Enterprise have submitted claims in respect of Individual Learning Accounts and how many claims such providers have made.

Ms Wendy Alexander: All learning providers registered with the Scottish Individual Learning Account scheme and claiming payments have been subject to validity checks by learndirect scotland and Scottish Enterprise.

Medical Research

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria must be met in order for an application for funding from the Chief Scientist Office to be successful.

Malcolm Chisholm: Research proposals to the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) are assessed on the basis of their scientific quality and potential relevance to the health of the Scottish people. The principal research grant holder must be a permanent salaried member of staff in a Scottish institution and the administering body must be based in Scotland.

  Projects must also be able to demonstrate "health gain" and potential to improve health care. Such assessments are made by expert peer group and committee review.

  Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss their research idea with CSO at an early stage, so that they can develop their proposals in a way that most directly addresses Scotland’s public health and health services research needs.

  Comprehensive information and guidance on how to apply for a CSO research grant is available on the CSO website at: www.show.scot.nhs.uk/cso/.

Medical Research

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether an application to the Chief Scientist Office for research funding involving staff based outwith Scotland would be processed as normal and whether the fact that non-Scottish employees would be working on the project would affect awarding decisions.

Malcolm Chisholm: The involvement of staff based outwith Scotland would not affect the processing of a research grant application or affect the decision to award grant provided that the principal grant holder is a permanent salaried member of staff in a Scottish institution and the administrating body is based in Scotland.

NHS Funding

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what its short-, medium-and long-term plans are for resourcing (a) the Beatson Oncology Unit and (b) the North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Malcolm Chisholm: Cancer is one of three clinical priorities for the Scottish Executive and for NHSScotland. The Executive is committed to year-on-year increases in the unified budget allocations made to NHS boards. From within these allocations, local NHS management are responsible for planning service provision to meet the needs of their resident populations, including provision for tertiary services from specialist centres such as the Beatson Oncology Centre. Greater Glasgow NHS Board was allocated an initial unified budget of more than £846 million for this year with indicative unified budget allocations of £907.9 million for 2002-03 and £982.3 million for 2003-04.

  In addition, an additional £40 million is being invested across Scotland over this and the next two years specifically for cancer services. Plans designed to secure improvements in these services, for example, through more rapid diagnosis and shorter waiting times, were announced on 6 November 2001. Of more than £10 million being invested this financial year, more than £5 million will secure improvements in Glasgow and the West of Scotland cancer services.

  Plans to build a new cancer centre in Glasgow are also being progressed, for which £44 million investment has also been set aside.

  Implementation/investment plans are available on www.scotland.gov.uk and www.show.scot.nhs.uk and copies have been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.

Non-Domestic Rates

Mr Keith Harding (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its news release SE5013/2001 on 11 December 2001, what financial impact the changes will have on the non-domestic rates burden of (a) Fife Constabulary, (b) NHS Fife and (c) Fife Council.

Mr Andy Kerr: The poundage supplement for ratepayers occupying property with a rateable value in excess of £25,000 will be fixed when the poundage figure is set for 2003-04. A provisional poundage figure for 2003-04 is likely to be announced in December 2003 and confirmed the following February.

Non-Domestic Rates

Iain Smith (North-East Fife) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a table of rateable values for non domestic properties in each local authority area for the bands of rateable value (a) £0 to £2,999, (b) £3,000 to £3,999, (c) £4,000 to £4,999, (d) £5,000 to £5,999, (e) £6,000 to £6,999, (f) £7,000 to £9,999, (g) £10,000 to £24,999 and (h) over £25,000 and in respect of each band (i) how many entries there are on the non domestic property valuation roll and (ii) what the total rateable value of properties is (1) in cash terms and (2) as a percentage of the total of all rateable values for the local authority.

Mr Andy Kerr: The information held centrally on rateable values for non-domestic subjects in each local authority area for a range of rateable values is given in the following tables. The rateable value bandings in the tables correspond to the rateable value bandings that will be used in the small business rate relief scheme.

  Number of non-domestic subjects on the valuation roll.1 by rateable value

  





Rateable Value of subject as at April 2000 
  

Number of subjects 
  



£1 to £2,999 
  

£3,000 to £3,999 
  

£4,000 to £4,999 
  

£5,000 to £5,999 
  

£6,000 to £6,999 
  

£7,000 to £10,000 
  

£10,001 to £25,000 
  

greater than £25,000 
  



Aberdeen 
  

1,648 
  

550 
  

518 
  

415 
  

344 
  

904 
  

1,833 
  

2,099 
  

8,311 
  



Aberdeenshire 
  

4,592 
  

646 
  

461 
  

367 
  

297 
  

677 
  

999 
  

694 
  

8,733 
  



Angus 
  

2,043 
  

403 
  

294 
  

226 
  

180 
  

343 
  

555 
  

387 
  

4,431 
  



Argyll & Bute 
  

4,013 
  

485 
  

337 
  

232 
  

202 
  

390 
  

637 
  

358 
  

6,654 
  



Clackmannan 
  

486 
  

125 
  

89 
  

94 
  

60 
  

129 
  

210 
  

164 
  

1,357 
  



Dumfries & Galloway 
  

4,669 
  

557 
  

398 
  

314 
  

257 
  

497 
  

773 
  

491 
  

7,956 
  



Dundee 
  

1,448 
  

485 
  

375 
  

302 
  

231 
  

590 
  

981 
  

937 
  

5,349 
  



East Ayrshire 
  

1,373 
  

361 
  

267 
  

236 
  

169 
  

362 
  

600 
  

429 
  

3,797 
  



East Dunbartonshire 
  

463 
  

147 
  

171 
  

154 
  

125 
  

279 
  

472 
  

351 
  

2,162 
  



East Lothian 
  

1,309 
  

271 
  

218 
  

131 
  

121 
  

258 
  

342 
  

254 
  

2,904 
  



East Renfrewshire 
  

340 
  

137 
  

103 
  

91 
  

81 
  

251 
  

375 
  

231 
  

1,609 
  



Edinburgh 
  

3,980 
  

1,482 
  

1,345 
  

1,095 
  

884 
  

2,069 
  

3,453 
  

3,492 
  

17,800 
  



Eilean Siar 
  

1,363 
  

114 
  

102 
  

60 
  

50 
  

101 
  

126 
  

93 
  

2,009 
  



Falkirk 
  

1,331 
  

408 
  

370 
  

240 
  

210 
  

430 
  

781 
  

705 
  

4,475 
  



Fife 
  

4,048 
  

972 
  

746 
  

633 
  

496 
  

1,091 
  

1,926 
  

1,632 
  

11,544 
  



Glasgow 
  

6,119 
  

2,240 
  

1,928 
  

1,462 
  

1,209 
  

2,727 
  

4,824 
  

4,918 
  

25,427 
  



Highland 
  

8,248 
  

882 
  

711 
  

586 
  

449 
  

985 
  

1,409 
  

1,115 
  

14,385 
  



Inverclyde 
  

542 
  

245 
  

160 
  

159 
  

111 
  

280 
  

401 
  

387 
  

2,285 
  



Midlothian 
  

804 
  

227 
  

166 
  

126 
  

95 
  

229 
  

358 
  

302 
  

2,307 
  



Moray 
  

2,241 
  

274 
  

200 
  

166 
  

144 
  

286 
  

416 
  

312 
  

4,039 
  



North Ayrshire 
  

1,771 
  

433 
  

339 
  

286 
  

197 
  

415 
  

713 
  

537 
  

4,691 
  



North Lanarkshire 
  

2,156 
  

762 
  

593 
  

507 
  

401 
  

886 
  

1,616 
  

1,639 
  

8,560 
  



Orkney 
  

1,138 
  

87 
  

86 
  

65 
  

42 
  

78 
  

128 
  

70 
  

1,694 
  



Perth 
  

2,789 
  

516 
  

429 
  

285 
  

298 
  

548 
  

973 
  

707 
  

6,545 
  



Renfrewshire 
  

1,330 
  

389 
  

399 
  

341 
  

283 
  

514 
  

1,101 
  

968 
  

5,325 
  



Scottish Borders 
  

3,458 
  

448 
  

324 
  

245 
  

190 
  

400 
  

671 
  

368 
  

6,104 
  



Shetland 
  

1,001 
  

120 
  

86 
  

72 
  

53 
  

118 
  

185 
  

111 
  

1,746 
  



South Ayrshire 
  

1,476 
  

369 
  

276 
  

239 
  

203 
  

424 
  

761 
  

584 
  

4,332 
  



South Lanarkshire 
  

2,204 
  

617 
  

574 
  

583 
  

427 
  

1,116 
  

1,743 
  

1,581 
  

8,845 
  



Stirling 
  

1,604 
  

352 
  

273 
  

223 
  

149 
  

365 
  

671 
  

543 
  

4,180 
  



West Dunbartonshire 
  

719 
  

203 
  

195 
  

162 
  

106 
  

243 
  

496 
  

474 
  

2,598 
  



West Lothian 
  

1,271 
  

381 
  

283 
  

297 
  

229 
  

465 
  

783 
  

869 
  

4,578 
  



SCOTLAND 
  

71,977 
  

15,688 
  

12,816 
  

10,394 
  

8,293 
  

18,450 
  

31,312 
  

27,802 
  

196,732 
  



  Source: As reported to Scottish Executive by Assessors for Revaluation 2000.

  Notes:

  1. Excludes subjects with zero rateable value, formula valued (e.g. electricity industry) and telecom subjects.

  Rateable value of non-domestic subjects on the valuation roll1 by rateable value £ thousands

  




Rateable Value of subject as at April 2000 
  

Total Rateable Value 
  



£1 to £2,999 
  

£3,000 to £3,999 
  

£4,000 to £4,999 
  

£5,000 to £5,999 
  

£6,000 to £6,999 
  

£7,000 to £10,000 
  

£10,001 to £25,000 
  

greater than £25,000 
  



Aberdeen 
  

2,464 
  

1,886 
  

2,297 
  

2,247 
  

2,213 
  

7,557 
  

29,729 
  

233,655 
  

282,048 
  



Aberdeenshire 
  

5,079 
  

2,217 
  

2,043 
  

1,986 
  

1,908 
  

5,656 
  

15,427 
  

69,011 
  

103,327 
  



Angus 
  

2,641 
  

1,381 
  

1,303 
  

1,218 
  

1,156 
  

2,881 
  

8,418 
  

33,929 
  

52,926 
  



Argyll & Bute 
  

4,312 
  

1,667 
  

1,504 
  

1,259 
  

1,297 
  

3,286 
  

9,786 
  

37,291 
  

60,402 
  



Clackmannan 
  

818 
  

427 
  

393 
  

507 
  

387 
  

1,082 
  

3,360 
  

23,167 
  

30,142 
  



Dumfries & Galloway 
  

5,193 
  

1,907 
  

1,758 
  

1,701 
  

1,657 
  

4,155 
  

12,114 
  

39,607 
  

68,092 
  



Dundee 
  

2,440 
  

1,667 
  

1,662 
  

1,644 
  

1,485 
  

4,942 
  

15,507 
  

102,307 
  

131,654 
  



East Ayrshire 
  

2,197 
  

1,247 
  

1,199 
  

1,285 
  

1,087 
  

3,006 
  

9,244 
  

40,350 
  

59,615 
  



East Dunbartonshire 
  

755 
  

507 
  

769 
  

830 
  

799 
  

2,305 
  

7,367 
  

32,464 
  

45,796 
  



East Lothian 
  

1,659 
  

941 
  

962 
  

712 
  

779 
  

2,169 
  

5,145 
  

21,228 
  

33,595 
  



East Renfrewshire 
  

500 
  

470 
  

470 
  

499 
  

527 
  

2,116 
  

5,810 
  

16,032 
  

26,425 
  



Edinburgh 
  

6,283 
  

5,134 
  

6,016 
  

5,938 
  

5,694 
  

17,397 
  

54,353 
  

475,128 
  

575,943 
  



Eilean Siar 
  

1,166 
  

386 
  

441 
  

320 
  

317 
  

843 
  

2,048 
  

7,180 
  

12,701 
  



Falkirk 
  

2,173 
  

1,398 
  

1,639 
  

1,308 
  

1,354 
  

3,624 
  

12,328 
  

94,366 
  

118,191 
  



Fife 
  

6,115 
  

3,356 
  

3,312 
  

3,431 
  

3,192 
  

9,196 
  

30,530 
  

178,913 
  

238,045 
  



Glasgow 
  

10,371 
  

7,756 
  

8,561 
  

7,936 
  

7,797 
  

22,892 
  

76,440 
  

546,883 
  

688,636 
  



Highland 
  

8,653 
  

3,005 
  

3,139 
  

3,151 
  

2,873 
  

8,284 
  

22,221 
  

92,600 
  

143,927 
  



Inverclyde 
  

925 
  

854 
  

705 
  

864 
  

713 
  

2,333 
  

6,425 
  

 41,830 
  

54,649 
  



Midlothian 
  

1,188 
  

791 
  

741 
  

679 
  

608 
  

1,928 
  

5,455 
  

31,069 
  

42,459 
  



Moray 
  

2,445 
  

941 
  

892 
  

901 
  

919 
  

2,411 
  

6,460 
  

37,883 
  

52,852 
  



North Ayrshire 
  

2,530 
  

1,491 
  

1,505 
  

1,558 
  

1,273 
  

3,430 
  

11,054 
  

53,196 
  

76,036 
  



North Lanarkshire 
  

3,656 
  

2,624 
  

2,636 
  

2,739 
  

2,580 
  

7,401 
  

25,563 
  

170,393 
  

217,592 
  



Orkney 
  

1,038 
  

297 
  

384 
  

357 
  

270 
  

651 
  

1,972 
  

9,167 
  

14,134 
  



Perth 
  

3,510 
  

1,783 
  

1,897 
  

1,549 
  

1,916 
  

4,589 
  

14,961 
  

66,745 
  

96,949 
  



Renfrewshire 
  

2,112 
  

1,337 
  

1,774 
  

1,860 
  

1,817 
  

4,304 
  

17,293 
  

106,142 
  

136,640 
  



Scottish Borders 
  

3,862 
  

1,537 
  

1,444 
  

1,330 
  

1,217 
  

3,375 
  

10,353 
  

25,959 
  

49,077 
  



Shetland 
  

919 
  

410 
  

383 
  

398 
  

343 
  

990 
  

2,891 
  

23,149 
  

29,484 
  



South Ayrshire 
  

1,907 
  

1,274 
  

1,227 
  

1,299 
  

1,305 
  

3,548 
  

11,652 
  

54,465 
  

76,678 
  



South Lanarkshire 
  

3,233 
  

2,137 
  

2,561 
  

3,134 
  

2,748 
  

9,354 
  

27,776 
  

163,534 
  

214,477 
  



Stirling 
  

2,047 
  

1,206 
  

1,217 
  

1,212 
  

954 
  

3,036 
  

10,379 
  

56,422 
  

76,473 
  



West Dunbartonshire 
  

1,216 
  

698 
  

865 
  

880 
  

679 
  

2,028 
  

7,850 
  

45,465 
  

59,680 
  



West Lothian 
  

1,901 
  

1,320 
  

1,265 
  

1,615 
  

1,474 
  

3,918 
  

12,238 
  

95,090 
  

118,821 
  



SCOTLAND 
  

95,307 
  

54,053 
  

56,966 
  

56,345 
  

53,338 
  

154,689 
  

492,149 
  

3,024,621 
  

3,987,467 
  



  Source: As reported to Scottish Executive by Assessors for Revaluation 2000

  Notes:

  1. Excludes subjects with zero rateable value, formula valued (e.g. electricity industry) and telecom subjects.

  Rateable value of non-domestic subjects on the valuation roll1 as a percentage of total rateable value

  





Rateable Value of subject as at April 2000 
  

Total 
  



£1 to £2,999 
  

£3,000 to £3,999 
  

£4,000 to £4,999 
  

£5,000 to £5,999 
  

£6,000 to £6,999 
  

£7,000 to £10,000 
  

£10,001 to £25,000 
  

greater than £25,000 
  



Aberdeen 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

11 
  

83 
  

100 
  



Aberdeenshire 
  

5 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

5 
  

15 
  

67 
  

100 
  



Angus 
  

5 
  

3 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

5 
  

16 
  

64 
  

100 
  



Argyll & Bute 
  

7 
  

3 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

5 
  

16 
  

62 
  

100 
  



Clackmannan 
  

3 
  

1 
  

1 
  

2 
  

1 
  

4 
  

11 
  

77 
  

100 
  



Dumfries & Galloway 
  

8 
  

3 
  

3 
  

2 
  

2 
  

6 
  

18 
  

58 
  

100 
  



Dundee 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

4 
  

12 
  

78 
  

100 
  



East Ayrshire 
  

4 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

5 
  

16 
  

68 
  

100 
  



East Dunbartonshire 
  

2 
  

1 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

5 
  

16 
  

71 
  

100 
  



East Lothian 
  

5 
  

3 
  

3 
  

2 
  

2 
  

6 
  

15 
  

63 
  

100 
  



East Renfrewshire 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

8 
  

22 
  

61 
  

100 
  



Edinburgh 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

9 
  

82 
  

100 
  



Eilean Siar 
  

9 
  

3 
  

3 
  

3 
  

2 
  

7 
  

16 
  

57 
  

100 
  



Falkirk 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

10 
  

80 
  

100 
  



Fife 
  

3 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

4 
  

13 
  

75 
  

100 
  



Glasgow 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

11 
  

79 
  

100 
  



Highland 
  

6 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

6 
  

15 
  

64 
  

100 
  



Inverclyde 
  

2 
  

2 
  

1 
  

2 
  

1 
  

4 
  

12 
  

77 
  

100 
  



Midlothian 
  

3 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

1 
  

5 
  

13 
  

73 
  

100 
  



Moray 
  

5 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

5 
  

12 
  

72 
  

100 
  



North Ayrshire 
  

3 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

5 
  

15 
  

70 
  

100 
  



North Lanarkshire 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

12 
  

78 
  

100 
  



Orkney 
  

7 
  

2 
  

3 
  

3 
  

2 
  

5 
  

14 
  

65 
  

100 
  



Perth 
  

4 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

5 
  

15 
  

69 
  

100 
  



Renfrewshire 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

13 
  

78 
  

100 
  



Scottish Borders 
  

8 
  

3 
  

3 
  

3 
  

2 
  

7 
  

21 
  

53 
  

100 
  



Shetland 
  

3 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

10 
  

79 
  

100 
  



South Ayrshire 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

5 
  

15 
  

71 
  

100 
  



South Lanarkshire 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

4 
  

13 
  

76 
  

100 
  



Stirling 
  

3 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

1 
  

4 
  

14 
  

74 
  

100 
  



West Dunbartonshire 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

13 
  

76 
  

100 
  



West Lothian 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

10 
  

80 
  

100 
  



SCOTLAND 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

4 
  

12 
  

76 
  

100 
  



  Source: As reported to Scottish Executive by Assessors for Revaluation 2000.

  Notes:

  1. Excludes subjects with zero rateable value, formula valued (e.g. electricity industry) and telecom subjects.

Non-Domestic Rates

Iain Smith (North-East Fife) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a table of rateable values for hotels and guest houses in each local authority area for the bands of rateable value (a) £0 to £2,999, (b) £3,000 to £3,999, (c) £4,000 to £4,999, (d) £5,000 to £5,999, (e) £6,000 to £6,999, (f) £7,000 to £9,999, (g) £10,000 to £24,999 and (h) over £25,000 and in respect of each band (i) how many entries there are on the non-domestic property valuation roll and (ii) what the total rateable value of properties is (1) in cash terms and (2) as a percentage of the total of all rateable values for the local authority.

Mr Andy Kerr: The information held centrally on rateable values for hotels and guesthouses in each local authority area for a range of rateable values is given in the following tables. The rateable value bandings in the tables correspond to the rateable value bandings that will be used in the small business rate relief scheme.

  Number of non-domestic subjects on the valuation roll1 by rateable value: hotels, guesthouses etc

  





Rateable Value of subject as at April 2000 
  (£) 
  

Number of subjects 
  






£1 to £2,999 
  

£3,000 to £3,999 
  

£4,000 to £4,999 
  

£5,000 to £5,999 
  

£6,000 to £6,999 
  

£7,000 to £10,000 
  

£10,001 to £25,000 
  

greater than £25,000 
  



Aberdeen 
  

53 
  

31 
  

17 
  

4 
  

2 
  

6 
  

7 
  

49 
  

169 
  



Aberdeenshire 
  

42 
  

12 
  

13 
  

9 
  

6 
  

29 
  

78 
  

51 
  

240 
  



Angus 
  

65 
  

2 
  

10 
  

9 
  

10 
  

43 
  

82 
  

27 
  

248 
  



Argyll & Bute 
  

851 
  

50 
  

21 
  

27 
  

17 
  

31 
  

89 
  

68 
  

1,154 
  



Clackmannan 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  

11 
  

1 
  

14 
  



Dumfries & Galloway 
  

69 
  

22 
  

12 
  

16 
  

12 
  

46 
  

67 
  

21 
  

265 
  



Dundee 
  

16 
  

7 
  

3 
  

0 
  

1 
  

9 
  

117 
  

56 
  

209 
  



East Ayrshire 
  

9 
  

3 
  

2 
  

3 
  

1 
  

9 
  

14 
  

5 
  

46 
  



East Dunbartonshire 
  

6 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

6 
  

12 
  



East Lothian 
  

51 
  

1 
  

0 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

27 
  

15 
  

99 
  



East Renfrewshire 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

1 
  

8 
  

9 
  



Edinburgh 
  

165 
  

91 
  

51 
  

26 
  

18 
  

22 
  

46 
  

91 
  

510 
  



Eilean Siar 
  

122 
  

3 
  

5 
  

0 
  

0 
  

7 
  

12 
  

11 
  

160 
  



Falkirk 
  

6 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

13 
  

12 
  

38 
  



Fife 
  

73 
  

17 
  

19 
  

16 
  

25 
  

100 
  

205 
  

68 
  

523 
  



Glasgow 
  

14 
  

11 
  

3 
  

5 
  

5 
  

10 
  

23 
  

48 
  

119 
  



Highland 
  

1,656 
  

97 
  

53 
  

39 
  

50 
  

99 
  

207 
  

145 
  

2,346 
  



Inverclyde 
  

2 
  

0 
  

1 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

5 
  

4 
  

13 
  



Midlothian 
  

7 
  

0 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

3 
  

10 
  

8 
  

29 
  



Moray 
  

26 
  

3 
  

5 
  

4 
  

6 
  

18 
  

35 
  

12 
  

109 
  



North Ayrshire 
  

199 
  

23 
  

9 
  

9 
  

3 
  

11 
  

33 
  

17 
  

304 
  



North Lanarkshire 
  

4 
  

1 
  

2 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

7 
  

20 
  

35 
  



Orkney 
  

143 
  

5 
  

6 
  

4 
  

2 
  

6 
  

12 
  

10 
  

188 
  



Perth 
  

341 
  

19 
  

28 
  

18 
  

17 
  

47 
  

131 
  

76 
  

677 
  



Renfrewshire 
  

20 
  

0 
  

0 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  

14 
  

37 
  



Scottish Borders 
  

37 
  

3 
  

5 
  

5 
  

7 
  

20 
  

48 
  

20 
  

145 
  



Shetland 
  

64 
  

2 
  

1 
  

3 
  

1 
  

7 
  

18 
  

9 
  

105 
  



South Ayrshire 
  

158 
  

5 
  

5 
  

4 
  

0 
  

11 
  

22 
  

33 
  

238 
  



South Lanarkshire 
  

38 
  

0 
  

1 
  

0 
  

2 
  

8 
  

17 
  

24 
  

90 
  



Stirling 
  

37 
  

10 
  

7 
  

6 
  

3 
  

11 
  

36 
  

28 
  

138 
  



West Dunbartonshire 
  

13 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

1 
  

3 
  

14 
  

31 
  



West Lothian 
  

15 
  

0 
  

2 
  

1 
  

3 
  

3 
  

12 
  

15 
  

51 
  



SCOTLAND 
  

4,302 
  

419 
  

283 
  

213 
  

193 
  

565 
  

1,390 
  

986 
  

8,351 
  



  Source: As reported to Scottish Executive by Assessors for Revaluation 2000.

  Notes:

  1. Excludes subjects with zero rateable value.

  2 Some Assessors include public houses and caravan parks within the hotel, guesthouse etc category of subjects.

  Rateable value of non-domestic subjects on the valuation role by rateable value: £ thousands

  hotels, guesthouses etc

  





Rateable Value of subject as at April 2000 
  

Total Rateable Value 
  



£1 to £2,999 
  

£3,000 to £3,999 
  

£4,000 to £4,999 
  

£5,000 to £5,999 
  

£6,000 to £6,999 
  

£7,000 to £10,000 
  

£10,001 to £25,000 
  

greater than £25,000 
  



Aberdeen 
  

120 
  

105 
  

75 
  

21 
  

14 
  

49 
  

138 
  

6,206 
  

6,727 
  



Aberdeenshire 
  

70 
  

42 
  

58 
  

48 
  

39 
  

252 
  

1,287 
  

3,037 
  

4,833 
  



Angus 
  

66 
  

6 
  

45 
  

48 
  

65 
  

365 
  

1,223 
  

1,333 
  

3,151 
  



Argyll & Bute 
  

841 
  

170 
  

95 
  

144 
  

109 
  

261 
  

1,418 
  

3,711 
  

6,749 
  



Clackmannan 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

19 
  

188 
  

31 
  

238 
  



Dumfries & Galloway 
  

99 
  

75 
  

53 
  

87 
  

75 
  

385 
  

1,045 
  

1,063 
  

2,881 
  



Dundee 
  

32 
  

23 
  

13 
  

0 
  

7 
  

85 
  

1,883 
  

3,110 
  

5,153 
  



East Ayrshire 
  

13 
  

11 
  

9 
  

16 
  

6 
  

75 
  

220 
  

193 
  

544 
  



East Dunbartonshire 
  

9 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

270 
  

280 
  



East Lothian 
  

64 
  

3 
  

0 
  

5 
  

7 
  

25 
  

414 
  

766 
  

1,284 
  



East Renfrewshire 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

15 
  

586 
  

600 
  



Edinburgh 
  

341 
  

312 
  

225 
  

142 
  

116 
  

186 
  

759 
  

19,380 
  

21,461 
  



Eilean Siar 
  

97 
  

10 
  

23 
  

0 
  

0 
  

59 
  

205 
  

467 
  

860 
  



Falkirk 
  

10 
  

3 
  

5 
  

5 
  

7 
  

26 
  

195 
  

1,120 
  

1,371 
  



Fife 
  

151 
  

59 
  

85 
  

87 
  

162 
  

863 
  

3,113 
  

4,363 
  

8,882 
  



Glasgow 
  

29 
  

38 
  

13 
  

27 
  

32 
  

85 
  

344 
  

9,406 
  

9,974 
  



Highland 
  

1,909 
  

325 
  

230 
  

208 
  

320 
  

842 
  

3,351 
  

8,644 
  

15,829 
  



Inverclyde 
  

3 
  

0 
  

4 
  

5 
  

0 
  

0 
  

100 
  

376 
  

488 
  



Midlothian 
  

9 
  

0 
  

5 
  

0 
  

0 
  

28 
  

168 
  

352 
  

562 
  



Moray 
  

47 
  

10 
  

22 
  

21 
  

38 
  

146 
  

545 
  

603 
  

1,432 
  



North Ayrshire 
  

207 
  

78 
  

39 
  

48 
  

19 
  

96 
  

557 
  

1,107 
  

2,151 
  



North Lanarkshire 
  

8 
  

4 
  

9 
  

5 
  

0 
  

0 
  

132 
  

1,801 
  

1,959 
  



Orkney 
  

87 
  

18 
  

28 
  

22 
  

13 
  

49 
  

191 
  

374 
  

780 
  



Perth 
  

420 
  

66 
  

123 
  

96 
  

108 
  

403 
  

2,046 
  

8,034 
  

11,297 
  



Renfrewshire 
  

26 
  

0 
  

0 
  

5 
  

0 
  

0 
  

36 
  

2,063 
  

2,129 
  



Scottish Borders 
  

60 
  

11 
  

21 
  

27 
  

44 
  

166 
  

719 
  

1,360 
  

2,410 
  



Shetland 
  

38 
  

6 
  

5 
  

16 
  

7 
  

58 
  

294 
  

361 
  

784 
  



South Ayrshire 
  

220 
  

16 
  

23 
  

22 
  

0 
  

93 
  

346 
  

2,834 
  

3,555 
  



South Lanarkshire 
  

42 
  

0 
  

5 
  

0 
  

13 
  

67 
  

263 
  

2,475 
  

2,864 
  



Stirling 
  

73 
  

33 
  

32 
  

32 
  

19 
  

90 
  

582 
  

2,541 
  

3,401 
  



West Dunbartonshire 
  

18 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

7 
  

45 
  

1,717 
  

1,786 
  



West Lothian 
  

18 
  

0 
  

8 
  

6 
  

20 
  

23 
  

184 
  

1,367 
  

1,626 
  



SCOTLAND 
  

5,124 
  

1,423 
  

1,252 
  

1,145 
  

1,238 
  

4,805 
  

22,005 
  

91,049 
  

128,040 
  



  Source: As reported to Scottish Executive by Assessors for Revaluation 2000.

  Notes:

  1. Some Assessors include public houses and caravan parks within the hotel, guesthouse etc category of subjects.

  Rateable value of non-domestic subjects on the valuation roll as a percentage of total rateable value: hotels, guesthouse etc

  





Rateable Value of subject as at April 2000 
  

Total 
  






£1 to £2,999 
  

£3,000 to £3,999 
  

£4,000 to £4,999 
  

£5,000 to £5,999 
  

£6,000 to £6,999 
  

£7,000 to £10,000 
  

£10,001 to £25,000 
  

Greater than £25,000 
  



Aberdeen 
  

2 
  

2 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

1 
  

2 
  

92 
  

100 
  



Aberdeenshire 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

5 
  

27 
  

63 
  

100 
  



Angus 
  

2 
  

0 
  

1 
  

2 
  

2 
  

12 
  

39 
  

42 
  

100 
  



Argyll & Bute 
  

12 
  

3 
  

1 
  

2 
  

2 
  

4 
  

21 
  

55 
  

100 
  



Clackmannan 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

8 
  

79 
  

13 
  

100 
  



Dumfries & Galloway 
  

3 
  

3 
  

2 
  

3 
  

3 
  

13 
  

36 
  

37 
  

100 
  



Dundee 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  

37 
  

60 
  

100 
  



East Ayrshire 
  

2 
  

2 
  

2 
  

3 
  

1 
  

14 
  

40 
  

35 
  

100 
  



East Dunbartonshire 
  

3 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

97 
  

100 
  



East Lothian 
  

5 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

1 
  

2 
  

32 
  

60 
  

100 
  



East Renfrewshire 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  

98 
  

100 
  



Edinburgh 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

4 
  

90 
  

100 
  



Eilean Siar 
  

11 
  

1 
  

3 
  

0 
  

0 
  

7 
  

24 
  

54 
  

100 
  



Falkirk 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  

14 
  

82 
  

100 
  



Fife 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

2 
  

10 
  

35 
  

49 
  

100 
  



Glasgow 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

1 
  

3 
  

94 
  

100 
  



Highland 
  

12 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

2 
  

5 
  

21 
  

55 
  

100 
  



Inverclyde 
  

1 
  

0 
  

1 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

20 
  

77 
  

100 
  



Midlothian 
  

2 
  

0 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

5 
  

30 
  

63 
  

100 
  



Moray 
  

3 
  

1 
  

2 
  

1 
  

3 
  

10 
  

38 
  

42 
  

100 
  



North Ayrshire 
  

10 
  

4 
  

2 
  

2 
  

1 
  

4 
  

26 
  

51 
  

100 
  



North Lanarkshire 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

7 
  

92 
  

100 
  



Orkney 
  

11 
  

2 
  

4 
  

3 
  

2 
  

6 
  

25 
  

48 
  

100 
  



Perth 
  

4 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

4 
  

18 
  

71 
  

100 
  



Renfrewshire 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  

97 
  

100 
  



Scottish Borders 
  

3 
  

0 
  

1 
  

1 
  

2 
  

7 
  

30 
  

56 
  

100 
  



Shetland 
  

5 
  

1 
  

1 
  

2 
  

1 
  

7 
  

37 
  

46 
  

100 
  



South Ayrshire 
  

6 
  

0 
  

1 
  

1 
  

0 
  

3 
  

10 
  

80 
  

100 
  



South Lanarkshire 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  

9 
  

86 
  

100 
  



Stirling 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

17 
  

75 
  

100 
  



West Dunbartonshire 
  

1 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  

96 
  

100 
  



West Lothian 
  

1 
  

0 
  

1 
  

0 
  

1 
  

1 
  

11 
  

84 
  

100 
  



SCOTLAND 
  

4 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  

4 
  

17 
  

71 
  

100 
  



  Source: As reported to Scottish Executive by Assessors for Revaluation 2000.

  Notes:

  1. Some Assessors include public houses and caravan parks within the hotel, guesthouse etc category of subjects.

  2. Percentages may not sum due to roundings.

Port Authorities

Mr Brian Monteith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive with regard to its news release SE3061/2001 of 7 September 2001, which organisations were consulted on the role of the proposed Forth Estuary Transportation Authority and when the consultation period ended.

Lewis Macdonald: The 52 organisations listed were consulted. Full information on the consultation was placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 16212) and on the Executive website. Consultation closed on 30 November 2001.

  


Organisations Consulted 
  



Aberdeen City Council 
  

Midlothian Council 
  

Scotland Office 
  



Aberdeenshire Council 
  

Moray Council 
  

CBI Scotland 
  



Angus Council 
  

North Ayrshire Council 
  

Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) 
  



Argyll and Bute Council 
  

North Lanarkshire Council 
  

The Automobile Association (AA) 
  



City of Edinburgh Council 
  

Orkney Islands Council 
  

RAC Foundation 
  



Clackmannanshire Council 
  

Perth and Kinross Council 
  

Association of Transport Co-ordinating Officers (ATCO) 
  



Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 
  

Renfrewshire Council 
  

Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) 
  



Dumfries and Galloway Council 
  

Scottish Borders Council 
  

Freight Transport Association 
  



Dundee City Council 
  

Shetland Islands Council 
  

Road Haulage Association 
  



East Ayrshire Council 
  

South Ayrshire Council 
  

Transform Scotland 
  



East Dunbartonshire Council 
  

South Lanarkshire Council 
  

Travelwise 
  



East Lothian Council 
  

Stirling Council 
  

Scottish Association of Passenger Transport (SAPT) 
  



East Renfrewshire Council 
  

West Dunbartonshire Council 
  

Forth Road Bridge Joint Board 
  



Falkirk Council 
  

West Lothian Council 
  

Tay Road Bridge Joint Board 
  



Fife Council 
  

South East Scotland Transport Partnership (SESTRAN) 
  

Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) 
  



Glasgow City Council 
  

Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA) 
  

Scottish Enterprise 
  



Highland Council 
  

SCOTS 
  

SUSTRANS Scotland 
  



Inverclyde Council

Port Authorities

Mr Brian Monteith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive with regard to its news release SE3061/2001 of 7 September 2001, what opportunities were made available to the public and other external parties to give views as part of the consultation on the role of the proposed Forth Estuary Transportation Authority.

Lewis Macdonald: The answer to question S1W-21569 lists the 52 organisations consulted on the Order establishing the Authority and explains that the documents were also made available on the Executive website and by request. This follows previous consultation on the policy principles surrounding the establishment and role of a new body to administer the Forth Road Bridge as part of consultation on the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001.

Prison Service

Roseanna Cunningham (Perth) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many general practitioners on average provided a medical service in each prison in (a) 1998-99, (b) 1999-2000 and (c) 2000-01.

Mr Jim Wallace: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

  I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-20320 answered on 18 December 2001.

Rail Network

Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on rail infrastructure in each year since 1999.

Lewis Macdonald: Information on expenditure by the rail industry is not held centrally. However the Executive has made the following awards to date for rail infrastructure projects

  

 

1999-2000 (£ million) 
  

2000-01( £ million) 
  

2001-02 (£ million) 
  



Freight Facilities Grant 
  

5.521 
  

1.977 
  

3.542 
  



Public Transport Fund 
  

12.351 
  

5.258 
  

17.894

Scottish Executive

Helen Eadie (Dunfermline East) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what analysis it has made of the volume of unsolicited faxes which it and non-departmental public bodies receive; how many times officials have responded to the premium rate phone numbers in such faxes, and what the estimated cost of this has been.

Mr Andy Kerr: The Scottish Executive has not made an analysis of the volume of unsolicited faxes it receives, nor does it seek this information from non-departmental public bodies. The Scottish Executive does however block outgoing access to premium rate telephone numbers.

  The Scottish Executive also makes monthly telecommunications monitoring reports available to all its budget centre managers, which show the number and cost of calls made from each telephone extension, including those used by fax machines. We also make monthly exception reports available, which identify individual outgoing calls which exceed a set duration or cost. If these reports give cause for concern, they are followed up in more detail.

Scottish Executive

Helen Eadie (Dunfermline East) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned into the costs to it of unsolicited faxes.

Mr Andy Kerr: The Scottish Executive has not commissioned research into the costs to it of unsolicited faxes.

  However, the Scottish Executive makes monthly telecommunications monitoring reports available to all its budget centre managers, which show the number and cost of calls made from each telephone extension, including those used by fax machines. We also make monthly exception reports available, which identify individual outgoing calls which exceed a set duration or cost. If these reports give cause for concern, they are followed up in more detail.

Scottish Executive

Helen Eadie (Dunfermline East) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring it carries out into the volume of unsolicited faxes it and its non-departmental public bodies receive and any associated costs incurred.

Mr Andy Kerr: The Scottish Executive does not monitor the volume of unsolicited faxes it receives; nor does it seek information from non-departmental public bodies about this.

  However, the Scottish Executive makes monthly telecommunications monitoring reports available to all its Budget Centre Managers, which show the number and cost of calls made from each telephone extension, including those used by fax machines. We also make monthly exception reports available, which identify individual outgoing calls which exceed a set duration or cost. If these reports give cause for concern, they are followed up in more detail.

Scottish Executive Departments

Mr Brian Monteith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is anticipating any delay to the centralisation in Perth of the Environmental and Rural Affairs Department offices of Dundee, Stirling or Forfar and, if so, what the financial implications of any such delay will be.

Ross Finnie: Although we are now looking to open the new office in Perth at the end of this year as opposed to September, we do not anticipate any significant delay beyond this. Accordingly there should be no knock-on financial implications.

Scottish Executive Publications

Mr Keith Harding (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what the full costs were of printing, publishing and distributing its document Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland 1999-2000.

Mr Andy Kerr: The total costs of printing, publishing and distributing the Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland 1999-2000 report are estimated at £6,200.

Shipbuilding

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20018 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 29 November 2001, what consultation with MSPs will be undertaken before publication of the Clyde Shipbuilding Task Force report.

Ms Wendy Alexander: The Clyde Shipyards Task Force included Gordon Jackson MSP as chair of the Scottish Parliamentary Shipbuilding Group. The task force do not plan individual consultations in advance of publication of the report in the next few weeks.

Student Finance

Andrew Wilson (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how students involved in higher education should fill the £700 funding gap which they will experience every year, as identified by Universities Scotland, once its bursary proposals have been implemented.

Ms Wendy Alexander: In addition to the main student support entitlement, which for a young full-time student starting higher education in Scotland is worth up to £4,315, supplementary grants for students with children or other special needs are also available. These grants include Dependants' and Lone Parents' Grants, the School Meals Grant and the Disabled Students' Allowance. From this year, the Lone Parents Grant contains an additional element for childcare worth up to £1,000. The School Meals Grant is also new this year. Assistance may also be available in individual cases from the Hardship Funds and/or Hardship Loans, which are intended to enable institutions to assist students who face particular financial difficulties. Mature students may also apply for support from the Mature Students Bursary Fund, from which payments up to the value of £2,000 a year may be made.

  Actual levels of personal expenditure, and the methods by which these are financed, are, however, ultimately a matter for individuals.

Student Loans

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4262 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 6 December 2001, what guidance is given to the Student Loans Company Ltd on the use of tracing companies dealing with debt.

Ms Wendy Alexander: No specific guidance is given to the Student Loans Company on the use of tracing companies. The company is responsible for following established procedures on inviting tenders for the subcontracting of its debt recovery function.

Student Loans

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4262 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 6 December 2001, how many times it met the Student Loans Company Ltd in (a) 1999-2000 and (b) 2000-01.

Ms Wendy Alexander: Officials from the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department and the Student Awards Agency for Scotland meet regularly with officials at the Student Loans Company. Complete details of all meetings held between the department and the company over any particular two-year period could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.

Student Loans

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4262 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 6 December 2001, what representations it has received over any difficulties in contacting the Student Loans Company Ltd.

Ms Wendy Alexander: I have not received any representations concerning difficulties in contacting the Student Loans Company. The company has specific performance targets on answering telephone calls and acknowledging and responding to complaints, its performance against which is recorded in the company’s annual report. I am aware that callers to the Student Awards Agency for Scotland may sometimes refer to difficulties in contacting the company by telephone.

Teachers

Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the method by which teachers are appointed to Catholic schools is in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights.

Nicol Stephen: It is the view of the Scottish Executive that the procedure for appointment of teachers to Catholic schools under section 21 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 does not breach the European Convention of Human Rights. However, decisions on compliance of the actions of individual schools with the convention are a matter for the courts.

Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body

Childcare Voucher Scheme

Mr Keith Harding (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Presiding Officer whether Family Matters was selected as the provider of the new childcare voucher scheme for MSPs and staff by open competition and, if so, which other providers were considered.

Sir David Steel: Three companies were invited to tender for this contract. The two other providers were Busy Bees and Accor Corporate Services.

Childcare Voucher Scheme

Mr Keith Harding (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Presiding Officer what remuneration or fee will be received by Family Matters annually in respect of providing the new childcare voucher scheme and any other services for MSPs and staff.

Sir David Steel: Information about contract fees is commercially sensitive and, as such, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) cannot disclose this information. To do so could cause significant damage both to the legitimate commercial interests of our supplier, and to the SPCB’s negotiating position.

Childcare Voucher Scheme

Mr Keith Harding (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Presiding Officer what options were available to the Parliament in respect of supporting MSPs and staff with childcare costs, prior to the decision to introduce a vouchers scheme and engage an external organisation to provide this service.

Sir David Steel: The SPCB considered a number of options to support MSPs and staff with childcare costs before deciding to introduce a childcare voucher scheme. These were:

  the provision of an on-site nursery in the Parliament’s interim accommodation;

  the creation of a new nursery outwith the interim complex;

  a contract with a private nursery, and

  a childcare voucher scheme.

Holyrood Project

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will request that an Official Report be taken of the proceedings in any future Holyrood Progress Group question and answer sessions.

Sir David Steel: The Standing Orders stipulate that an Official Report shall be provided for all meetings of the Parliament. The question and answer sessions held by the Holyrood Progress Group are not formal meetings of the Parliament and it would not be appropriate, therefore, for an Official Report to be published.

  A summary of these sessions is provided in the Progress Group’s Newsletters, which are issued to all Members and are available on the web. The next Newsletter is due to be published in February. I am also advised by the Convener of the Holyrood Progress Group that it is the Group’s intention to provide a live webcast of future events.

Holyrood Project

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-21034 on 3 January 2002, whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will provide a list of the sub-contractors of Flour City Architectural Metals (UK) Ltd and a list of the sums of money claimed by each sub-contractor as due to them by Flour City.

Sir David Steel: The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body is not party to sub-contracts let by Flour City Architectural Metals (UK) Ltd and does not hold the information requested. This type of information is held by the official receiver.

Holyrood Project

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-21035 on 3 January 2002, whether Flour City Architectural Metals (UK) Ltd used the Holyrood site as its business address.

Sir David Steel: As with all other trade package contractors taking occupation of the accommodation at the Holyrood site, Flour City Architectural Metals (UK) Ltd used the site address for business relating to the Holyrood Project.

Holyrood Project

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Presiding Officer whether any losses to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body following the insolvency of Flour City Architectural Metals (UK) Limited are considered to have arisen as a result of force majeure.

Sir David Steel: There have been no losses to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body as a result of "force majeure", following the insolvency of Flour City Architectural Metals (UK) Limited.

Scottish Parliament Staff

John Farquhar Munro (Ross, Skye and Inverness West) (LD): To ask the Presiding Officer what plans the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body has to introduce a car share scheme for staff.

Sir David Steel: The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body has no plans to introduce a car share scheme for staff at the moment.